We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! This past semester, Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on Olfactory Narratives in Cinema, a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions—particularly around gender, race, and global culture. Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows.

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Congratulations to our 2025 Summer Research Award recipients from Ethnic Studies, Environmental Design, Geography, Information, Film and Media, Rhetoric, and Anthropology. Read more

We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Evan Sakuma on Triggered Identities!

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BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks! Read more

Alum Eleni Oikonomaki in Placemaking Week! Read more

Christo co-edited this special on Science and the State. Read more

Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media.  Read more

A report detailing best practices in Subsea Telecommunications Cable Sustainability from research from our own Nicole Starosielski's team! Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more

Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok with Meg Everett Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more

Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more

Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Alum Christo Sims discusses Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters on Public Culture. Read more

Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin for receiving the Courage to Dream Book Prize for her book The Distance Cure! Read more

Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more

Berkeley Alumnae Tackle Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this January! Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics was reviewed in GlassTire. Read more

BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more

Lashon Daley shares how the support of the Peter Lyman felowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

Reggie Royston's research article, "Configuring Ghana's diaspora" is now available in African Diaspora.  Read more

Justin Berner published an essay titled "Unhelpful Tools: Reexamining the Digital Humanities through Eugenio Tisselli’s degenerative and regenerative" on Electronic Book Review earlier this month! Read more

This prestigious fellowship supports promising scholars in the completion of their dissertations examining ethics and religion. Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more

A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more

Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more

The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar'  Read more

Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more

Issue 2 "How to be Now" of Post 45 features Damon Young's investigation of irony in the age of the internet. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more

We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

The UCLA Law Review published Sonia Katyal's paper on accountability and artificial intelligence. Read more

Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. Read more

BCNM DE student Molly Nicholas recieved the 2019 Snap Fellowship! Read more

The authors challenge the assumption that youth have an intuitive understanding of technology, pointing to the impact of class on digital accessibility. Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

BCNM Alum Reginold Royston presented at the 2018 African Studies Association Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

Professors Jeremy Rue and Richard Koci Hernandez were featured in an article in California Magazine on augmented reality. Read more

Schradie published "The Digital Activism Gap" in Social Problems Read more

BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's book, Queer Game Studies, was reviewed in the Critical Studies in Media Communication journal.  Read more

Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more

The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more

Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more

Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more

A Response to Eyal Weizman’s “Forensic Architecture” by Katherine Chandler (Ph.D. Candidate Rhetoric and Designated Emphasis in New Media) Read more

For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more

Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more